Jerusalem Post:
Iran sought her execution for becoming Christian: 'You’re fighting with God' | Marziyeh Amirizadeh
An Iranian judge told Marziyeh Amirizadeh she would be hanged for converting to Christianity. Her reply: "You're not fighting with me. You're fighting with God."
Born months before the 1979 revolution, Amirizadeh grew up in Tehran being made to chant "Death to America, death to Israel" in school lines, dodging morality police vans outside shopping malls, and asking questions her Quran teachers tried to silence.
In this interview with Jerusalem Post news editor Alex Winston, she describes how a recurring dream of a white horse set her on a path out of Islam, and why, facing a death penalty for apostasy, she told the judge: "My life is in God's hand. It's not in yours."
Her story offers a rare inside view of Iran's underground church movement: house churches of 10 to 15 people, a Farsi-language church watched by regime cameras across the street, and a two-woman operation that put 20,000 smuggled New Testaments into Tehran mailboxes, so many that, she says, officials believed a large Christian network was behind it.
She also recounts her 2009 arrest and the detention center where Mahsa Amini was held in 2022, and why she says reading the Bible changed how she saw Israel and the Jewish people after a childhood of regime propaganda.
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